A career within the Commercial Assurance services, will provide you with the opportunity to assist clients manage their third party risk, deliver compliance and enhance value from their third party relationships. We do this by providing five propositions – third party strategy, third party risk, third party compliance, third party value and third party assurance across our engagements with clients.

Financial Services organisations have become more complex and business models have evolved with an increased dependency on third parties both external vendors and intra affiliates. This complexity and the resulting opaqueness of the supply of services have led to increased operational overheads and investment due to the need to properly assess and manage third party risk. Additionally, this is a topic that is high on the global regulatory agenda; regulators see the failure of third parties as a significant risk to financial stability and are using their powers to enforce improved practices across the industry. More widely, regulators are also tackling this issue together as part of other key areas of focus such as resolution and recovery planning (RRP), ring-fencing and broader improvements in operational risk management, including Three Lines of Defence (3LOD) programmes.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to

Proactively assist in the management of several clients, while reporting to Managers and above

Train and lead staff

Establish effective working relationships directly with clients

Contribute to the development of your own and team's technical acumen

Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues

Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients

Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand

Essential skills and experience

Graduate or equivalent qualification

A sound business understanding, commercially and risk aware

Experience in at least two of the following – risk, control, sourcing, managed services, professional services, assurance

Financial Services experience

Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

Excellent relationship management skills, with the ability to operate and manage stakeholders

Self-starter with positive, 'can-do' approach

Ability to work effectively as part of a 'virtual team'

Excellent organisation skills

Empathy & Resilience

Moral courage to deliver what’s best for our clients

Salary Competitive

Closing Date 6th September 2018

Location London

Reference number 26522BR

Assurance

Assurance is a dynamic place to be right now, and the variety of opportunities on offer is unprecedented. It’s work that really does matter. It matters for businesses, governments and society at large. Our team provides confidence on the most complex decisions companies have to take and this provides a wealth of opportunities to everyone who joins us and works with us.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

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